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Hospital Inpatient Proposed Rule Phases In Some Pay Cuts
CMS recently proposed increasing payment rates for hospital inpatient services by 0.8 percent in 2014, a move that drew praise from hospitals as CMS moderated some of the pay cuts recently pushed by Congress, including offsets for the short-term physician payment patch included in the January fiscal cliff deal.

CT and MRI Equipment Manufacturers May Realize Reductions in Hospital Payments
The American College of Radiology, Medical Imaging and Technology Association and advanced-imaging equipment manufacturers, including GE Healthcare and Siemens Healthcare, recently met with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officials in a bid to keep the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from using separate cost centers for Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to set reimbursement levels.